Best 180 quotes of Natalie Portman on MyQuotes

Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.

Actually I want to scare away method actors because it's a pain. It's like, 'Come on, what are you doing? It's not real. What are you doing? Oh, you're really brooding. Okay, good. Go to your trailer. I'll see you in an hour.'

Actual plans for how we help the economy, how we help the environment, how we help [deal with] violence in our cities. These are things that Hillary Clinton has always brought the conversation back to, when he's gone vulgar and he's gone low.

A movie about a weak, vulnerable woman can be feminist if it shows a real person that we can empathize with.

As I get older, I'm more relaxed and less concerned with what people think of me

As I look back on it, I'm glad that I had this false image. I was who everyone else - my parents, my friends, society - wanted me to be. I was a pleaser, someone who wanted to make everyone happy, to not let anyone down. Now, I'm not like that.

As someone who was born in Israel, you're put in a position of defending Israel because you know how much is at stake.

Awards are so unnecessary because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.

Ballet really lends itself to that because there's such a sense of ritual, with wrapping the shoes every day and preparing new shoes for every performance. It's such a process. It's almost religious, in nature.

Basically I have, like, five really close friends - girls and guys. I like being friends with both because you can do different things with both.

Breast implants gross me out. I don't think they're attractive at all.

By the physicality alone it was evident that we have one person [who] is incredibly smart, incredibly tough, and able to deal with him in a very, very calm and intelligent manner. And [Donald Trump] thought he was on The Jerry Springer Show.

Cute is when your personality shines through your looks. Like, when you see someone's personality in the way they walk and you just feel like hugging them every time you see them.

Cute is when your personality shines through your looks.

[Donald] Trump wants to punish women for getting abortions and defund Planned Parenthood.

Even [Donald Trump] presence was bullying, was lurking, and was just mainly creepy.

Even my life's not normal because I'm acting, right?

Everyone dreams of living in Paris.

Everyone has to find what is right for them, and it is different for everyone. Eating for me is how you proclaim your beliefs three times a day. That is why all religions have rules about eating. Three times a day, I remind myself that I value life and do not want to cause pain to or kill other living beings. That is why I eat the way I do.

Girls have girl/guy relationships because we are expected to be so emotional and sensitive and stuff, and sometimes you just don't feel like being that way.

Going to a party, for me, is as much a learning experience as, you know, sitting in a lecture.

Grab the good people around you. Don't let them go.

Guys have guy/girl relationships so that they can have their own guy thing plus the sensitive thing with the girl.

Hillary Clinton has a real history of uniting people, of being able to work with both Republicans and Democrats, of trying to fight for people's equal rights. Whereas we really see the polar opposite in her opponent.

Hillary Clinton has really strong plans, in terms of the economy, extending health care even further, making education more affordable, making smart gun law changes to prevent the kind of disasters we've been seeing on a daily basis.

Hillary Clinton is such a formidable candidate.

Hillary Clinton wants to extend the Obamacare rule that healthcare companies cannot discriminate against women and charge them more than men for their healthcare. [Donald] Trump wants to get rid of Obamacare.

Hillary Clinton wants to push for equal pay and for paid family leave and for better and cheaper childcare.

I also feel I'm a positive role model by not putting my education on hold.

I am a very strict vegetarian. ...I just really, really love animals, and I act on my values.

I am more a teenager than anyone else I know. One minute I feel really adult and the next minute I say, 'Let's play hide-and-seek.'

I am not someone who sacrifice all for the cinema, my life will be always more important.

I campaigned for Hillary Clinton when she was in the primaries against [Barack] Obama, actually.

I can sleep a whole day. If no one woke me up, I would sleep for 24 hours. I think it's a combination of my age and my appreciation for sleep. Sleep is so wonderful. Sometimes you can oversleep and feel like you've waster your time, but I think it's one of the bestways to spend your time.

I couldn't be anorexic because I like food too much, and I couldn't be bulimic because I hate throwing up too much.

I'd basically have trouble with any job that doesn't require me to wear silly clothes and talk in funny voices.

I don't believe in the afterlife. I believe this is it, and I believe it's the best way to live.

I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of people you can call in the middle of the day to go for a hike.

I don't love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.

I don't mean to criticize anyone in any way that I wouldn't criticize myself. I think people should have fun, and have a good time, and enjoy the luck that we have to be lazy and dwell in consumerism. But I think that it's a balance. And our job as actors is empathy.

I don't think I've ever been in love, I'm sure I will be some day. I've had enormous crushes, although I've never been into the Brad Pitt thing.

I don't want to be a celebrity who's trying to like say, «look at this charity work I'm doing».

I don't want to sound superficial, but when I go see a movie myself, I'd rather look at Tom Cruise than some shmo with a beer belly

I do think there is a sort of natural balance in nature between men and women, and that it's being thrown off-balance by the social and economic inequities between men and women.

I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

I feel really urgent about this election. This is the first time in my voting life that I feel not only passionate about my candidate, but also that the alternative would be catastrophic. I want to help the best candidate win.

If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.

If we can find ways to love life and be joyful without being wasteful or destructive--that's what's important.

If you can't laugh at yourself, life is going to seem a whole lot longer than you'd like.

If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're being the listener.